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Surely an unrelated phenomenon wrt Wisconsins general trajectory of appeasing the bourgeoisie
https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-second-largest-brain-drain-country
Honestly Madison is too good for Wisconsin. Good people of Madison, instead of moving away just secede the city and join Michigan.
Yeah i feel like TT (cant bring myself to write his full name without fedposting) is going to win any way and the state will just continue to get precipitously worse. Maybe theyll fix the teacher shortage by collaborating with the tavern league to press-gang 4-time OWI offenders. Like you say most of the state are as docile as winter cattle and twice as gullible
So do these job openings staying open or are they filled and the people who don't get a job like that leave the state. Kinda relevant, not answered.
Also $50k/yr in light of the great cheeto-pedo war and its inflation is like minimum wage, right?
I have no idea what local wages in the US are supposed to be. By my standards seems decent but not exciting. For straight out of uni exciting.
Most white collar jobs start between $22-$25 which is ~$45k-$50k/yr.
A decent one is anything over $35/hr or ~$72k/year. I'm in a small town and make $41/hr, and it's still mostly unaffordable. ~30% of that goes to taxes and healthcare immediately. Another 30% goes immediately to rent and another 30% to feeding the family. So I get to maybe hold onto $8-10k/year if I don't go out, or have emergency expenses lol.